Dr. Kazem Sohraby
Professor
Electrical Engineering
Office: BELL 3178
Phone: (479) 575-2635
E-mail: sohraby@uark.edu
Education
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Amir Kabir University, Tehran, Iran
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic, Worcester, MA
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY
- MBA, University of Pennsylvania, PA
Biographical Information
Dr. Kazem Sohraby is Professor of Electrical Engineering in College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He also served as head of department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, and before joining University of Arkansas, he served as the chair of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Management department at Stevens Institute of Technology. He was with the Mathematical Sciences Research Center, Mathematics of Networks and Systems, and with the Performance Analysis Departments (Advanced Communications Technologies) at Bell Labs (Lucent Technologies, and AT&T). He is founder of Center for Advanced Computing and Communications Research, and Networking Research, College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, and is a Principal Consultant on Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) projects. His areas of interest include computer networking, signaling, switching, performance analysis, and traffic theory. He has over 20 pending and granted patents on computer protocols, wireless and optical systems, circuit and packet switched computer networks, and Optical Internet. He has over 60 publications and book chapter contributions, and is co-author of a book on the performance and control of computer communications networks. He currently serves as an IEEE Communications Society Director and served as its president's representative on Committee on Communications and Information Policy (CCIP), and has been a Distinguished Lecturer of that Society since 1996. He served as chair of several conferences in both ACM and IEEE. He also served on the education committee of the IEEE Communications Society, is on the editorial boards of several publications, and panelist and reviewer with the National Science Foundation, US Army, and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He received PhD, MS, and BS (high honors) all in Electrical Engineering, and his MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
